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Simon Yuill: The Ontology of Code and the Coding of OntologySimon asks: What are the different processes and forms in which software and code 'come into being'?; How are the claims around such ontologies and the 'being' of code constructed?; How can this inform a political praxis of software and the modes of production under which it is created?

David Berry: The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age As software increasingly structures the contemporary world, curiously, it also withdraws, and becomes harder and harder for us to focus on as it is embedded, hidden, off-shored or merely forgotten about.

i am at the libre graphics meeting in brussels; this is the 5th annual gathering of people who use and develop open source tools for graphics. like the software, the event is free, & pretty well organised - the programme is packed but femke's excellent time-keeping skills are keeping the presentations moving along. the presentations have ranged from the deeply geeky to the metaphysical, from hardware to software to textile art & design. there are even a few other performance artists here, which is nice.

recently i posted about an internet blackout protest against section 92a, a proposed nz law that would have forced ISPs to take down a web site on accusation of copyright infringment, no proof required. this week, the nz government scrapped it - following organised protest & lack of industry support.

i am at wintercamp in amsterdam
i am at home in new zealand in 1995
i am rehearsing with paula in the uk
i am busy planning a trip to europe
i am happy that the section 92 (guilt apon accusation) bill has been postponed ...

On WIKI as Art
On Valentine's Day 2009, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern launched the Wikipedia art page, which resonated with the history of media art, authorship, and media formalism on many levels. Has this particular piece updated Beuys' admonition of the openness of art? Not only that, does art based on open Web 2.0 standards like the Wiki define art that is a palimpsest by definition? What is interesting yet disturbing about this is not only the obliteration of discrete authorship, but the total indeterminacy of intellectual ownership whatsoever.

in response to Aileen's latest post about Speed and Imaginary Futures Last weekend I found this image in the ladies loos at the Solaris cafe in Linz. We were enjoying an excellent evening of conversation which touched on an observation (apposite to all present), that the media arts world is disproportionately composed of people with Catholic upbringings. It seems doubly worth bringing up here because, a couple of weeks ago, whilst chatting with the author of Imaginary Futures (recently awarded the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology) I discovered that Marshal McLuhan was also a devout Catholic. During this conversation we touched on how many approaches and practices of net art evoked early Christian Mysticism.

To follow...a collection of unordered ideas, tools and resources for our new collaboration.
First, some abstract images taken from my mobile phone from a traffic jam south of the Blackwall tunnel on Thursday 13th December. The car was static so all the movement is in my wrist.
The phone is a sony ericsson with a 20 megapixels camera.
http://furtherfield.org/experimnet/

UpStage V2 has been launched & so far it's all good, i am feeling pretty tired but satisfied : ) the exhibition looks great & the festival promises to be an amazing day.
You can pop in on the exhibition any time by going to http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/babayaga - this stage is live in the gallery during opening hours (NZ time, 9-5 monday to thursday, 9-7 on fridays & 4-7 on saturdays) for the next two weeks.

An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007 via NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://furtherfield.org
The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists to share a freely accessible form of distribution.
The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus artists’ common disregard for the distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the ‘high’ art world. They often took the form of themed, ‘open calls’, in which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.
This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation together at the same time.
The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).
This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art and tactical media (said to be motivated by curiosity, activism and precision) towards a more collaborative DIWO approach. Peers connect, communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and culture using both digital networks and shared physical environments.

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